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These amber nuggets are stunning! They're amazingly light in weight, and their color is a medium-dark honey. The nuggets range in length from 8 to 12mm. (I have another amber necklace posted here.)
I strung the nuggets with 3mm gold-filled beads, and finished with a Bali vermeil hook & eye clasp.
The necklace is just a hair over 18 inches long, with a weight of 0.4 oz.
Price: $35.10 (shipping is free)
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These agate beads have a nice variety: several have some banding or splotching going on, some are translucent, some are cloudy, and some are opaque. The color is more orange than red. (I've got another red agate necklace here, and a red onyx necklace here. (Onyx and agate are related and often overlapping.)
Each bead measures about 14x10mm, and is linked with gold-filled wire. I finished with a Bali vermeil s-clasp.
The length of the necklace is 22.5 inches (can be worn shorter by hooking the clasp as shown), with a weight of 1.1 oz.
Price: $48.40 (shipping is free)
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Flashy rainbow moonstone! Only the second picture is taken in direct sunlight, but even in indirect light the blue flash shows up. (I do love moonstone. You can see my other moonstone necklaces here and here.)
These particular beads are handcut, so they aren't perfectly uniform. They're rondelles (tire-shaped), faceted, and measure roughly 6mm in diameter and about 2.5 to 4mm thick. I strung them with Bali vermeil rondelles, and finished with a Bali vermeil s-clasp. The little round gold beads by the clasp are gold-filled crimp covers--crimps are what fastens the beading wire closed.
The necklace is 18.75 inches long, and weighs 1.0 oz.
Price: $35.80 (shipping is free)
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Amazonite is yet another one of my favorite stones (I have so many!). Usually it's a lovely light blueish green in color (there's a variety called Russian amazonite that's a deep teal green with creamy streaks, which is also gorgeous--I've got some lovely beads in my stock). Sometimes it's more blue, sometimes it's more green. You can see my earlier amazonite necklaces here and here.
These particular beads are flat disks measuring about 16mm in diameter, and around 3.5mm thick. I linked each with sterling silver wire, finishing with a Turkish silver hook & eye clasp.
The necklace is 23.5 inches long, with a weight of 1.7 oz. (The beads are a bit too thin for the hook to catch on the individual beads, so the length is not adjustable.)
Price: $29.90 (shipping is free)
Azurite is usually found with malachite, so it's common to refer to the combined material as azurite-malachite. Most of the azurite-malachite you see on the market has been assembled, though, as in this set of beads.
The beads are flat rectangles, measuring 14x10mm. I linked each with sterling silver wire, and finished with a Turkish silver hook & eye clasp.
The necklace is 24.25 inches long (can be worn shorter by hooking the clasp as shown), with a weight of 1.5 oz.
Price: $34 (shipping is free)
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The colors in this set of ocean jasper beads are much more varied than the set I used in this ocean jasper necklace: there are reds, greens, creams, browns, all jumbled together! Each bead is a flat faceted oval, measuring 14x10mm and linked with sterling silver wire. I finished with a Turkish silver hook & eye clasp.
The necklace is 24.5 inches long, with a weight of 1.2 oz. (The hook is too large to catch on the individual beads, unfortunately, so the length is not adjustable.)
Price: $45.60 (shipping is free)
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The first picture was taken in indirect light & the second picture was taken in direct sunlight.
These rose quartz beads are so cute! They are ovals which have been carved to look like little leaves, measuring from 8 to 11mm long by 7 to 8mm wide. I'm pretty sure they're not dyed, but I washed them to make certain. I strung them with 4mm sterling silver beads, and finished with a Bali silver hook & eye clasp.
The necklace is almost 17.25 inches long, with a weight of 0.7 oz.
Price: $21.70 (shipping is free)
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Here's some banded rainbow fluorite! Only a few beads show any hint of green, so mostly what you see are the purples. These beads are not polished to a high gloss, just a satiny sheen with some surface scratches and flaws. They are very pretty, though. (If you'd like to see my other fluorite necklaces, click here, here, here, here, and here.)
The ovals measure about 18x13mm, and are slightly twisted instead of being perfectly flat. I linked each oval with sterling silver wire, finishing with a Turkish silver hook & eye clasp.
The necklace is 19.5 inches long (can be worn shorter by hooking the clasp as shown), with a weight of 1.7 oz.
Price: $19.90 (shipping is free)
I love this stone! It's dumortierite (pronounced doo-more'-teer-ite), & it's such an elegant shade of dark denim-y blue. (I have another dumortierite necklace here.)
Anyway, the ovals measure about 18x13mm. I joined each bead with sterling silver wire, finishing with a silver hook & eye clasp from Turkey.
The necklace is 23.5 inches long (can be worn shorter by hooking the clasp between two stones as shown), and weighs 1.6 oz.
Price: $30.20 (shipping is free)
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